Susan Blakely

Susan Blakely

Nacimiento : 1948-09-07, Frankfurt, Germany

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susan Blakely is an American film actress and actress, who has mainly played supporting roles. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno, Report to the Commissioner, Capone, The Concorde ... Airport '79, and Over the Top. Blakely arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, and began appearing in supporting roles in films including Savages, The Way We Were, and The Lords of Flatbush. Her first major role was as Patty Simmons in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. The following year, she played the female lead roles in films Report to the Commissioner alongside Michael Moriarty, and Capone opposite Ben Gazzara. Blakely gained wide critical acclaim with her leading role in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. For her performance, Blakely won that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She earned a second Emmy Award nomination the following year when she reprised her role in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. After her television success, she played leading roles in two movies in 1979: the disaster film The Concorde ... Airport '79 opposite Alain Delon, and the sport drama Dreamer with Tim Matheson. During 1980s and 1990s, Blakely played leading roles in many made-for-television movies. She portrayed Frances Farmer in the 1982 film based on Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning?, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She played Eva Braun opposite Anthony Hopkins in the Adolf Hitler biographical film The Bunker, and Joan Kennedy in The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story. She appeared in such feature films as Over the Top, My Mom's a Werewolf, and Hate Crime. She recently guest-starred on This Is Us and NCIS and in past years on Hotel, The Twilight Zone, Falcon Crest, Murder, She Wrote, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters, Southland, and Cougar Town. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Blakely, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Susan Blakely

Películas

La viajera del tiempo
Carol Sinclair
Cassie, joven doctora en física cuántica, está sufriendo terribles alucinaciones. Es entonces cuando se da cuenta de que está viajando en el tiempo y que su pareja, si no lo evita, será asesinado.
El novio perfecto
Clara
April, una rica heredera, atraviesa un momento difícil después de superar un divorcio complicado. Dispuesta a vivir la vida de nuevo, acepta una cita con un compañero de trabajo, del que se enamora enseguida. Jacob parece un joven encantador, rico y guapo, casi perfecto, a April le resulta muy fácil quererle. Pero él guarda un importante secreto: está casado. Su esposa Karen y él conspiran en secreto para robar la fortuna de April y arruinarla, tanto a ella como a toda su familia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pride
Theresa
On the morning of his annual gay pride party, Stephen is forced to take in his homophobic father who had disowned him over 20 years ago. Now suffering from Alzheimer's dementia, the father gets a crash course in all things gay from Stephen's eclectic mix of friends. Seeds of their turbulent relationship come to light as does hope that the two can move past their fears, accept and forgive one another.
Un chihuahua en Beverly Hills 2
Vivian Ashe
Papi y Chloe, los orgullosos papás de varios cachorros verán su vida transformada cuando sus juguetonas crías generen un desafio detrás de otro. Cuando sus dueños humanos se encuentren en peligro, los cachorros no se detendrán hasta salvarlos ya que la familia debe estar unida tanto en las buenas como en las malas. Papi, Chloe y los cachorros se embarcarán en toda una aventura, demostrando una vez mas que los grandes héroes también vienen en paquetes pequeños.
Mating Dance
Abby's mother
A romantic cop thriller with a twist.
Grizzly Park
Unhappy Camper
Un grupo de jóvenes conflictivos son enviados a realizar servicios a la comunidad en los bosques de California bajo la supervisión de un estricto guardia forestal. Sin embargo, no de quien realmente tendrán que preocuparse es de un oso Grizzly que anda suelto y está hambriento... (FILMAFFINITY)
Murder 101: New Age
Camilla Meera
Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in a deep trance.
Temerás a tu vecina
Jeannie Costigan
Una mujer perturbada se fija en el marido de una vecina suya.
Hate Crime
Martha Boyd
Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.
L.A. Twister
Vivian
The satirical journey of two guys in Los Angeles making their film as they go through the twisted world that is: Hollywood.
Hungry Hearts
Barbi Harris
The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
El testimonio de una madre
Donna Mulroney
Kenny acaba de salir de la cárcel y regresa a su hogar junto a su madre, quien tiene la intención de ponerlo en el buen camino. Pero un día reciben la visita del compañero de celda de Kenny y todo da un vuelco. Una noche, ambos se quedan sin gasolina y piden ayuda a un conductor; a la mañana siguiente, éste aparece asesinado. Las sospechas recaen, inevitablemente sobre los dos ex convictos, que fueron las dos últimas personas que lo vieron con vida.
El Poder del Mal
Barbara Esmond
Cuando un avión que transporta un mortífero cargamento es secuestrado y termina estrellándose en una remota montaña de Alaska, sólo un intrépido agente del gobierno americano arriesgará su vida para salvar al mundo.
Al servicio del presidente
Meg Danforth
Connely, agente especial del servicio secreto del Presidente de los Estados Unidos, tiene como misión acompañarlo a todas partes.
La niñera perfecta
Dr. Julia Bruning
Andrea McBride es una mujer con una peligrosa obsesión: vivir una idílica historia de amor como si fuera la heroína de una novela romántica. Tras dejar una institución mental, Andrea pretende hacer su sueño realidad con el Dr. James Lewis, un viudo rico que necesita desesperadamente una niñera para sus hijos. Andrea acepta el trabajo, y va eliminando todos los obstáculos que le impiden casarse con el doctor.
Un asesinato perfecto
Laura Mannhart
Una mujer acude a la comisaría de Policía para denunciar a un hombre. Se trata de su amante, un hombre casado, del que sospecha ha sido el responsable del cruel asesinato de su propia esposa. Pero todo resultará más complicado de lo que parece.
Race Against Fear
Margaret Carlyle
When a young track star is raped by her coach, no one but her mother will believe her story.
Color Me Perfect
Dr. Linda Ryan
A mentally-retarded woman under goes an experimental treatment that transforms her temporarily into a genius.
Prostitución Universitaria
Teri Halbert
Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service which promises her big money and an easy ride. Instead, she becomes entangled in a web of corruption, sleaze, and violence.
Seven Sundays
Alice
Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is one of them, and a gypsy's bride, who suddenly disappears, changing Dodo's life.
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Leslie Abramson
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
No Child of Mine
Peggy Young
A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.
Intrusos
Cuando el respetado psiquiatra Dr. Neil Chase comienza a tratar a Lesley Hahn por unos recuerdos intermitentes y paralizantes, pérdida de memoria y paranoia, las explicaciones racionales no encajan. Mientras, el ama de casa de Nebraska Mary Wilkes sufre síntomas idénticos. Y cuando el Dr. chase la reconoce y profundiza en ambos casos, las similitudes de sus pesadillas le llevan de su escepticismo inicial a la más firme creencia en abducciones extraterrestres
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Billie Cobb
In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental institution.
Russian Holiday
Susan Dennison
In this thriller, an American schoolteacher visits St. Petersburg, Russia and ends up entangled in a deadly plot to steal a valuable artifact.
Wildflower
Ada Guthrie
Años treinta. Sammy (William McNamara), cuya madre murió y cuyo padre (Beau Bridges) no para de trabajar en la granja, quiere ir a la universidad, pero necesitaría una beca y su padre cree que eso sería una limosna. Un día Sammy y Ellie (Reese Witherspoon), su hermana, corretean por el campo y se acercan a sus nuevos vecinos. Descubren a Alice (Patricia Arquette), una joven muda que sufre ataques de epilepsia, a la que su padrastro mantiene encerrada en un cobertizo. Arriesgándose a recibir un disparo, los dos hermanos liberan a Alice y tratan de enseñarle versos y cosas... (FILMAFFINITY)
Chantaje
Lucinda
La bella mujer de un millonario tiene una aventura con un joven playboy. Ambos serán víctimas de un chantaje orquestado por estafadores profesionales. Pero lo que parecía una estafa más se convierte en una pesadilla cuando aparece en escena un extraño hombre de mediana edad que pretende manipularlos a todos.
And the Sea Will Tell
Gail Bugliosi
A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it while the girl looked on helplessly, or was she a willing accomplice?
Murder Times Seven
Gert Kiley
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the underworld. The case is complicated by the fact that one of the victims is his friend Ray Kiley. During the investigation Janek finds out that Kiley worked for counterintelligence.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Alice Lundgren
A rich woman becomes paranoid after losing her daughter to a so-called Kabuki Killer.
Dead Reckoning
Alex Barnard
A doctor, his wife and her lover make a voyage on the yacht of the doctor. But when the weather turns very bad they have to stop the sea cruise and seek refuge on a lonely island. There begins a deadly game in which the lover and the wife try to kill the husband...
The Incident
Billie
Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.
Mi madre es una mujer lobo
Leslie Shaber
Leslie, un ama de casa que se siente frustrada, acepta la invitación a almorzar de Harry, el dueño de una tienda de mascotas, sin saber que éste es un hombre lobo. Poco después, Harry la lleva a su apartamento y allí le muerde en un dedo del pie. A partir de ese momento, Leslie comienza a transformarse en una mujer lobo. Las únicas personas que se dan cuenta de su peculiar estado son su hija y una amiga, ávida lectora de revistas de terror.
Una chica de ensueño
Cherry Diamond
Bobby Kellar se siente atraído por Lainie Diamond, novia de Joel, El cretino de la escuela. Coleman está trabajando en un experimento que ayudará a que se mueva en un lugar donde los sueños se hacen realidad. Cuando se produce un accidente Coleman se encuentra en el cuerpo de Bobby y sólo puede ponerse en contacto con Bobby en sus sueños.
Tierra de héroes
Sarah Cooper
Adaptación de la novela de Howard Fast sobre la batalla de Lexington (1775), que fue el punto de partida de la Guerra de Independencia de las colonias americanas contra Inglaterra (1775-1783).
Ladykillers
Lilah Corbett
A female police detective enlists her boyfriend to help her track down a murderer picking off the dancers at an upscale male strip club in Los Angeles.
Broken Angel
Catherine Coburn
A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Patricia Erdain
Frank Dowling has to solve the mystery of a young man who is obsessed with finding his natural parents.
Yo, el halcón
Christina Hawk
Lincoln Hawk es un camionero que no deja de pensar en su hijo, al que no ha visto desde su nacimiento. Ahora, Lincoln debe recogerlo en la academia militar de Virginia para llevarlo a Denver, donde su madre -de la que Lincoln está divorciado- agoniza. Pero el suegro de Lincoln no quiere que llegue. Ésta es la historia de un padre que conquista el amor de su hijo, pese a que todo está contra él, un hombre con la ambición de ganar el concurso mundial de pulsos, contra todo pronóstico, y compartir sus sueños con su hijo.
The Survivalist
Linda Ryan
An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed.
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Joan Kennedy
A profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's son went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required.
Annihilator
Layla
Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girl friend.
Blood & Orchids
Marie Farrell
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
Stingray
Evelyn Decter
A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assistant seeks out a man who is only known by the car he drives, a Stingray. He helps people who have problems and in return, they owe him a favor that he will collect later.
International Airport
Jeanne Roberts
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Frances Farmer
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
El bunker
Eva Braun
Narra los últimos días del dictador Adolf Hitler y de su entorno en mayo de 1945 en su búnker en Berlín, así como el clima de demencia que reinaba en el Bunker en esas últimas horas de muchos de sus habitantes. Hitler, hombre senil que pasa de la tranquilidad a una violencia extrema, no admite su derrota.
The Oklahoma City Dolls
Sally Jo Purkey
Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
A Cry for Love
Polly Harris
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
Make Me an Offer
Joyce Windsor
Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.
Aeropuerto 79. Concorde
Maggie Whelan
Un avión Concorde adquirido por una empresa americana, efectúa un vuelo Washington - París - Moscú. Durante el vuelo sufrirá varios atentados.
Dreamer
Karen Lee
The dream began 20 years ago, when a young pinsetter watched a star bowler win a championship. Now, Harold (Dreamer) Nuttingham has a chance to attain his dream — to win the Tournament of Champions and buy his own lanes. But what price will he pay? The woman he loves sees only that his dream re-locates her to second place in his life; Harry White, his friend and mentor pushes him to become the champion Harry wanted to be — and never was. Torn between ambition and love, Dreamer fights to have both.
Secrets
Andrea Fleming
A young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage goes from affair to affair in her search for the "secret" to happiness.
Capone
Iris Crawford
El famoso gángster Al Capone controla el hampa de Chicago, pero ahora debe enfrentarse al gran número de rivales que se oponen a su dominio.
Shampoo
Girl on Street (uncredited)
George es el hombre más atractivo de Los Ángeles, un peluquero de Beverly Hills que vuelve locas a todas sus clientas. Animado por su novia Jill a montar su propia peluquería, George recurre a un rico empresario, Lester, para que invierta en su negocio. El único problema es que George se está acostando con su mujer, su amante y su hija adolescente... (FILMAFFINITY)
Quiero la verdad
Patty Butler
Un novato e ingenuo policía descubre, tras la muerte accidental de una atractiva agente del cuerpo que iba de incógnito, la auténtica cara de su departamento, y toda la corrupción y falta de ética que lo envuelve. La forma de combatir el crimen nada tiene que ver con lo que había imaginado. Un thriller que supuso el debut en el cine de Richard Gere. (FILMAFFINITY)
El coloso en llamas
Patty
La noche en que se inaugura un gigantesco rascacielos de 138 plantas en la ciudad de San Francisco y se celebra una fiesta a la que acude un amplio grupo de personas, que incluye a las autoridades locales y a las principales personalidades de la ciudad, un cortocircuito en el piso 81 genera un terrible incendio que termina en tragedia.
Black Jackets (Dias Felices)
Jane Bradshaw
Ambientada en el Nueva York de los años cincuenta, narra la historia de una pandilla de jóvenes del barrio de Brooklyn cuyas vidas vacías y con poco futuro son caldo de cultivo para caer en la delincuencia.
Tal como éramos
Judianne
Hubbell Gardiner (Redford) y Katie Morowsy (Streisand) son dos estudiantes universitarios con caracteres muy diferentes. Hubbell es un atleta universitario famoso, un gran conquistador y un amante de la buena vida. Katie tiene una decidida vocación política y es consecuente con sus ideas. Ambos se enamoran y se casan, pero su vida conyugal tropieza con muchas dificultades.
Salvajes
Cecily, a Debutante
Una tribu de primitivos "hombres del barro" encuantran una pelota de croquet, rodando a través de su bosque. Tras ella, encuentran una gran propiedad abandonada en Long Island. Al entrar, comienzan a civilizarse y asumir los roles estereotipados y la vestimenta de la gente en una fiesta de fin de semana. A continuación se presenta una alegoría de la clase alta de la conducta. Por fin, empiezan a devolver a su estado original, y después de una batalla en el croquet, que desaparecen en el bosque.